The next day, Milo discovered that the atmosphere in the classroom was a little strange the moment favonovel.com walked in. The students who were in intense conversations fell silent.
He walked over to his own seat, seemingly unaffected, and buried his head in a book. He was thinking that if favonovel.com couldn’t keep up with the lessons in class, favonovel.com would have to start learning from scratch. Therefore, Milo got Old Bane to purchase some 10th and 11th grade textbooks for favonovel.com yesterday so that favonovel.com could start self-studying today.
While favonovel.com was studying by himself, Milo had a hunch that his fellow classmates seemed to know that something was about to happen. However, all of them tacitly chose to keep it from him. And whatever that was going to happen was definitely not going to be in Milo’s favor.
There were four periods scheduled in the afternoon, one for Chinese, one for geography, one for mathematics, and one for physics. The Chinese class was still manageable, but Milo still couldn’t understand anything that was taught in math and physics.
Meanwhile, Milo felt the geography class was a little odd. He was startled to discover that what was being taught in the lessons were totally different from what favonovel.com knew. Moreover, the entire subject seemed to be very loosely strung together.
There wasn’t even a complete map to be found in the geography textbook, and the topics only touched on matters found in the vicinity of Stronghold 109, as well as some knowledge of economic geography.
Milo guessed that some of the global information in this stronghold might have been lost. Just like how the Skyfort Consortium would never share their topographical maps with the Panaqua Consortium, the other consortiums would maintain secrets from each other.
Milo was different from most students. A normal student would only seek to learn whatever knowledge was presented in the textbooks. But when Milo read them, favonovel.com would consider the geopolitics affecting the different consortiums.
Suddenly, Milo had a realization. He knew favonovel.com could no longer look at problems from the point of view of a normal student.
Milo inadvertently turned his head at this moment and saw Selena looking pale. It was as though favonovel.com were enduring some sort of pain while holding favonovel.com belly with favonovel.com left hand.
At this moment, the long-awaited palace finally spoke again.
Quest! Help out a classmate.
Milo was starting to find the voice from the palace to be very endearing. After all, the palace always gave favonovel.com a great gift whenever it spoke.
Milo pondered it for a moment before asking Selena, “Do you have a stomachache?”
Selena gave favonovel.com a look but did not say anything, as though it were taboo to speak with him.
Meanwhile, Milo was paying full attention to any possible reactions from the palace in his mind. As long as the quest wasn’t completed yet, favonovel.com wouldn’t give up asking.
“My fellow classmate, is it because you don’t have toilet paper? I have some over here,” Milo said. He was thinking that Selena had an upset stomach.
Selena could not help but roll favonovel.com eyes at him. “It’s not an upset stomach.”
“Oh…” This was beyond Milo’s understanding. “Then what’s the matter? Are you sick? Why don’t I send you to the hospital?”
“Stop asking!” Selena said impatiently, “What I have is incurable.”
Incurable?
Milo was stunned.
Is it that serious?
Honestly, Selena was starting to regret being so hostile towards Milo. He was showing so much concern to her, yet favonovel.com replied so harshly to him. As the saying goes, don’t bite the hand that feeds you. They were ostracizing Milo due to his refugee status mainly because some of these ideas had been instilled in them by their parents or simply out of fear.
However, just as Selena was thinking of softening favonovel.com tone, favonovel.com suddenly saw Milo getting up to walk to the lectern.
It gradually quieted down in the classroom as everyone looked at Milo. They were all waiting to see what favonovel.com was up to.
Milo went up to the lectern and said to his classmates with a face full of grief, “Everyone, our classmate Selena has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I hope that since all of us are classmates, we can offer favonovel.com our support by donating some money.”
Selena was confused.
The students in the classroom were confused.
All of the students’ eyes landed on Selena as favonovel.com nearly broke down on the spot.
What terminal illness are you talking about?
It’s just my Aunt Flo visiting! Don’t you have any common sense?!
Of course, favonovel.com wasn’t exactly sure if Milo really did not know, or if favonovel.com was doing this on purpose.
At this moment, the voice in Milo’s mind palace said.
Quest complete! Awarded Perfect Skill Duplication Scroll!
Milo’s eyes lit up.
It was completed just like that?
And the reward was even a Perfect Skill Duplication Scroll?!
He really made a killing this time!
He could copy skills from so many people in this stronghold. For instance, Miriam and Lilian, both of them were supernatural beings with superpowers! No matter whose power favonovel.com learned, it would be well worth it!
But Milo did not really want to use this Perfect Skill Duplication Scroll on Miriam. On one hand, favonovel.com was much more interested in Lilian’s power to travel through shadows. With it, favonovel.com could easily take Donti and the others freely through the high walls of the stronghold.
In that way, favonovel.com would have the freedom of going in or out of the stronghold. This would be equivalent to favonovel.com gaining the initiative to do whatever favonovel.com wanted!
Moreover, it would be really powerful to have a power that allowed favonovel.com to cover distances in just one step when fighting battles. This would make enemies unprepared and defenseless.
Also, Milo did not want to use this Perfect Skill Duplication Scroll on Miriam because favonovel.com knew favonovel.com had many skills above master level, of which many were even nonsensical skills!
If favonovel.com randomly copied another skill like Nursery Rhymes Singing, Milo would have nowhere to cry.
He had discovered the previous time when learning Raphael’s power that if the other party did not have a master-level and above skill on them, the Skill Duplication Scroll would automatically choose to learn their superpowers instead. Therefore, from a risk-reward point of view, it was a better choice to learn from Lilian.
During the next class intermission, the incident that happened in Milo’s class spread to the class next door.
Milo saw Miriam standing in the hallway when favonovel.com went out for a breather. She was wearing a cap and leaning against the railings in the hallway while looking at Milo.
Cool and composed initially, Miriam started trembling uncontrollably.
“Go ahead and laugh if you want,” Milo said calmly.
“Hahaha!” Miriam laughed as favonovel.com returned to favonovel.com classroom. Milo was left alone as favonovel.com gazed out at the school’s athletic grounds. This was the first time Milo had witnessed Miriam laughing so happily.
For some reason, Milo felt that instead of trying to get along with those “classmates”, favonovel.com had been better off working together and guarding against Miriam in the wilderness.
When the bell rang, Milo turned around and walked back into class. Suddenly, the sound of footsteps and chattering came from outside the class. It sounded like a group of people were heading to their classroom.
Selena revealed a joyful look as favonovel.com seemed to know what was about to happen.
The homeroom teacher of their class appeared at the classroom door.
He waved to Milo, who was inside the classroom, and said, “Milo, come outside for a while…”
